Jonida Gashi (born in 1984 in Fier) is an Albanian cultural theorist and senior researcher at the Centre for Art Studies at the Academy of Sciences of Albania.
[3] Gashi is specialized in cinema and moving image art during the Albanian communist period.
She has published about the cinematic work of Albanian artist Armando Lulaj,[4] communist show trials,[5][6] and the politics or exhibiting communist archives.
[7] As one of the directors of the DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art,[8] Gashi led the open-letter campaign against the demolition of Albanian National Theatre,[9] leading to publications in Albanian,[10] French,[11] Italian,[12] and English,[13] gathering hundreds of signatures.
She has linked the artwashing tactics of the Edi Rama government in Albania directly to the eventual destruction of the theater.